It's not an all or nothing proposition here. ADD and ASD very clearly exist in a big way in some individuals.

The issue is more where to draw the line between disordered behavior and just unusual. Even the name of autism has been changed to reflect this more nuanced approach.

I'm sorry if I'm going ad-hom, but it's quite clear you don't know how encryption works.

You'd want a good 1000-10,000x factor of hardness over whatever you think is hard enough, otherwise it just gets easy to farm out the computation for something that would 'normally' take 10 days to a botnet that brings that down to 1 hour. For this reason you'd really you'd want to set the 'normally' to the whole of the earth's computation capacity, which has really exploded recently due to bitcoin.

Also it's not so easy to tune. The whole reason why we use the encryption algorithms we use is that their difficulty goes up generally at 2^x, where x is the size of the key. If you get an extra 10 bits in the key (bits, not bytes) you end up with a 1,024x harder problem.

Repeat after me: Correlation does not imply causation. There could be many reasons for this correlation, the purported theory being only one of them.

IC design isn't something you can do in your spare time. You need a full-scale industrial process.

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Beware the banana in disguise!

I'm a family doctor and have managed literally hundreds of people with obesity and type II diabetes.

I've seen diabetes reverse twice, once after gastric bypass surgery and 40kg of weight loss, and once in someone else who lost a lot of weight after being told he had about six months to live if he didn't. I've had one other patient who has lost a lot of weight without surgery.

Weight loss is hard. Very hard. Hunger is a survival response and is about as easy to ignore as the need to breathe. Of course if someone has a highly calorie controlled diet and sticks to it, that works, but IRL the odds are stacked against you.

I... think you're fundamentally missattributing the work of individuals with that of a country. There's plenty of stuff from most cultures everywhere, plus good ideas spread.

Me too. Part of me wonders / hopes that this job won't be replaced by robots...

Mortality is not always a good endpoint. It's reasonable for something like heart disease modifiers, but if the study was done on say random hand amputation with immediate medical care then mortality would not be the right endpoint.

What about rates of depression / memory impairment / relationship breakdown / partner violence / educational outcomes / overall wellbeing? All of these are missed if you solely focus on mortality.

This idea of eternal exponential growth of things, it's just ridiculous. It's just not sustainable. It's literally impossible to sustain.

Some common arguments:
"We will build space-ships and start colonizing space"

Nuh-uh, after approximately 1000 years the whole galaxy is colonized, even with a habitable star around every star in the galaxy. After 2000 years it's the entire observable universe.

"The growth will continue in intangible services"

So you're saying actual physical objects will comprise tiny fractions of a percent of the economy?

It's just silly.

You're not quite thinking this through.

Your golf-clubs will be kept at a storage facility, which will automatically load the clubs onto a small self-driving car that will roll out to wherever you want it.

Don't forget, cars don't just move people, they move objects too. There's only logistical reasons why your golf bag itself can't be a self-driving car, or at the very lease easily slotted onto one.

A specialist is someone who knows more and more about less and less, and ends up knowing everything about nothing. A generalist knows less and less about more and more, and ends up knowing nothing about everything.

Not really. There's areas of mass where there's little to no ordinary matter, where galaxies have collided and the gas has slowed down, but the dark matter has kept on going. This is demonstrated by gravitational lensing effects of the invisible mass. This doesn't really fit with MOND theories.

As usual, Australia does it better. The Australian Electoral Commission is in charge of all federal elections, and there's state bodies bound by the same rules that run the state and local elections. Their funding isn't subject to any political process, and elected officials have no ability to manipulate electoral boundaries or the election process itself.

You will have to take my pool piss from my cold dead.... Yeh :)